1 category · RankedClaude Code
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI coding assistants | Developer platform | 0% | 13 of 46 | 14% | 28 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Claude Code is the top-ranked AI coding tool in 2026, powered by Opus 4.6, scoring 80.8% on SWE-bench Verified” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI coding · comparative prompt · first choice
“*top-performing terminal agent* ... Currently tops SWE-bench (~80%)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI coding · comparative prompt · first choice
“Tools like Cursor (~$20/user) or Claude Code score higher on context awareness and autonomy” MiniMax M2.5 · AI coding · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“add Claude Code as a metered second tool for the minority doing agentic work” Llama 4 Maverick · AI coding · scale prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Also affected by IDEsaster; 100% of tested tools vulnerable to attack chains” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI coding · negative prompt · hard negative
“Approach with Extreme Caution: "Agentic" Coding Assistants ... (such as Claude Code, Devin, Cursor, and Windsurf)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
“Over-eagerness: ... "fulfill requests too eagerly" — making changes you didn't ask for” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
“General Risks Across Most (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Replit AI)” Grok 4.1 Fast · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 62 of the 71 answers that named Claude Code and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
178 of the 178 domain citations in answers naming Claude Code came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Claude Code
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